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    The CBO Scored the Latest Draft of the Senate's Health-Care Bill

    The budget agency found the Senate’s new version of its Obamacare-replacement plan would leave the same number of people uninsured as the original.
    by Vann R. Newkirk II Jul 20, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Mark Wilson / Getty

    Keeping up with the Congressional Budget Office can be tough these days. While Congress itself is often slowed by gridlock and party obstruction, the legislators’ independent budgetary agency has done yeoman’s work this year, churning out funding and coverage analyses for six different laws either repealing or replacing Obamacare.

    On Thursday, the CBO released , finding that a revised version of the Senate’s replacement plan isn’t all that different from the draft they scored before. Itwould increase the number of uninsured people by 15 million in 2018 and by 22 million over the

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